One of the documents describes Putin and senior officials overseeing proxy efforts to spread claims that Biden, as vice president, engaged in criminal activity in his dealings with Ukraine and Burisma. The document says operatives affiliated with the Russian government advanced these narratives with U.S. officials and other prominent figures, through personal interactions as well as audio and documentary releases via U.S. and Ukrainian outlets.

It goes on to say these figures were conspiring to intensify their efforts as the election approached, aiming to “orchestrate a high-profile corruption scandal” implicating Biden and the Democratic Party in order to help Trump win.

The document describes an intelligence assessment that Russian government-linked proxies were working to damage Biden’s candidacy ahead of the vote, relying in part on U.S. officials and other prominent people to amplify the narratives, though many of the people involved remain redacted in the public version.

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        Four years of “Merrick Garland is a professional and he is just making sure all the i’s are dotted and t’s are crossed before prosecuting trump”.

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          The fact that he was Republican had nothing to do with it.

          That’s right, Biden appointed a Republican to investigate the Republicans. One more reason why he will be permanently ranked among the bottom 15 of American presidents. If he hadn’t done a great job with Covid and the Trump Economic Crash, he’d be in the bottom 5.

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          we have to call out people more on stalling and kick out the people who legitimately believe such flimsy excuses for being shit managers.

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          Some of this might just be generational differences; I remember people in school told me a lot about how penmanship mattered, and I think for their generations (x/boomer) it did. Let’s not criticize people for cultural differences just because we don’t understand them.

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            its the go-to for stalling. dont buy into it. it is a shit excuse to be buying into anyways.